Item Info
Item No: pdcm00511a
Title: 26 South 5th Street - Front
Additional Title: Ezra Levinson, Paper - Mall Project A
Historic Street Address:
26 South 5th Street
Media Type: Photographic Negatives
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
This July 1949 image was taken as part of the preparation for beginning "Mall Project A,” for creating what became Independence Mall—the three blocks north of Independence Hall, bounded by Chestnut, Race, 5th and 6th Streets.
Ezra Levinson Paper was one of the many buildings purchased and demolished to create the First Block, the block immediately north of Independence Hall; the block was completed in 1954.
Creation Year: 1949
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.149102
Geocode Latitude:39.950183
Creator Name: Parker & Mullikin - Photographer